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Reckoning with Statistics
posted by Bill Crawford | 6/10/2010

“There are three kinds of lies,” wrote Mark Twain, “lies, damned lies, and statistics."   But “the worst lies,” said Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, “are the lies we tell ourselves.”   I am brought to these thoughts by the pending retirement of my friend Phil Pepper. Mostly renowned as the “state economist,” our Dr. Phil has been a man of few lies and many statistics. That such a man weathered stormy, Full Story
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